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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jobs and gloom -Jayan Jose Thomas

Jobs and gloom -Jayan Jose Thomas

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published Published on Feb 18, 2019   modified Modified on Feb 18, 2019
-Frontline.in

Available evidence indicates that the employment situation in India may have worsened in the recent past, and the losses have been heavy for the informal sector. The delayed release of official data on employment only makes diagnosis difficult.

This year’s Union Budget, even if truncated because of its interim nature, was widely anticipated for the manner in which it would address the question of employment. In the last week of January, two members of the National Statistical Commission (NSC) quit, citing, among other reasons, the delay in publishing the official data on employment for 2017-18. In the same week, the media reported that the unemployment rate in India in 2017-18, according to the yet-to-be released data, was 6.1 per cent, which would make it the highest unemployment rate recorded in the country in the 45 years since the gathering of such data by official agencies commenced.

The gloomy data on employment may not have surprised many. But what was shocking was the confusion around, and the delay in, the release of the official data. Thankfully, as a result of these developments, the attention of the media and observers of the Indian economy is now riveted not only on the crisis in jobs but also on the problems relating to employment statistics in India.

Data on Jobs


At the heart of the revelations in the media are the employment and unemployment household surveys conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), which functions under the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The NSSO’s household surveys on employment and unemployment and consumption expenditures are considered a reasonably reliable source of information on the enormous social and economic changes in India. Social scientists all around the world have actively participated in the analysis of, and debates surrounding, the various rounds of these surveys.

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Frontline.in, 1 March, 2019, https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article26246884.ece?homepage=true


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